Yeah, I get that it's satire. But, ya know, maybe it's, um, a little ahead of its time, given that approximately half the country would forward this picture to a relative with the note: "Even the New Yorker thinks they're black power terrorists!" without a trace of irony.
[As an aside, I find it rather bitterly amusing that nothing like the same outrage was mustered when another presidential candidate and sitting US Senator was given a similar "satirical" treatment on a lefty rag in the not-too-distant past, even as it was deliberately designed to reinforce offensive narratives, rather than undermine them, as here. Funny how that works.]
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